Sam & Max - Situation: Comedy - Won't load saved games.

Whenever I attempt to load a saved game, the game trips out. I've tried deleting the prefs and save games, but it still trips out on loading a new game or attempting to start a new game on any occasion but the initial load.

Well, if it's windowed, then the program just closes entirely. If it's fullscreen there's an error sound, and I think there's an error box that I can't read because the only way to get out of fullscreen is to close the program.

I have the same problem : the game won't load any saved game (automatic or manual saving).

I play in fullscreen. When I select a game and click on the "load" button associated, the screen stay freezed on "loading". When I move my mouse, I see the cursor appears on the center of the screen so I presume a message box is displayed but it is invisible, so I cannot tell you what is the exact error text...

The message box is not really talkative : "Error: Access violation at 0x00650B28 (tried to write to 0x000055C5), program terminated.", but if it can help...

And I just tried to launch a new game, the same problem occurs... Of course, it worked yesterday.

edit 3: more details on my configuration and OS. And I forgot to tell you that I had no problem to run the episode 1, but I cannot tell you if it runs now as my hardware fingerprint is not good anymore (I changed my motherboard a few days ago) and I am still waiting for my activation code.